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Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Benchmark hidden in AutoCAD

Did you know that there is a benchmark program hidden in your AutoCAD? If you want to compare the performance of different graphics cards, computers or different performance settings, you can simply load and execute the GSTEST.ARX benchmark stored in your AutoCAD directory.It is present not only in AutoCAD 2008 - I have succeeded to track it back to the AutoCAD version 2004 (maybe it was also in older versions). It is interesting that nobody has found it so far.Read more on Undocumented benchmark utility installed with AutoCAD.